[Footnote 197: See the laws of Constantine and his
successors against adultery, sodomy &c., in the Theodosian,
(l. ix. tit. vii. leg. 7, l. xi. tit. xxxvi leg. 1, 4) and
Justinian Codes, (l. ix. tit. ix. leg. 30, 31.) These
princes speak the language of passion as well as of justice,
and fraudulently ascribe their own severity to the first
Caesars.]